Note 118 — THE ETHNOLOGY OF PEYOTISM

Sometimes the stories have a moral point; the following was told by O. W. (Comanche) to E. R. (Delaware): the leader of a Wichita Easter meeting had a fine watch, costing from $150 to $200. At daylight, before water time, wanting to display it, he put it down by the feathers. A man to the north was singing and making vigorous punches toward the peyote. When he looked at his watch later, “it was just a mess of works in there loose, and the hands dropped off,” though nobody had touched it. “It don’t pay to go in there and then try to show off.”